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The idiom 「瞬息之間」 and its usage are explored below. Learn its meaning and applications here.

In a very short period of time.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

shùn xī zhī jiān

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

seun3 sik1 ji1 gaan1

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